Major tourist attractions

The 2008 Olympic Games boosting up the property market in Tianjin

The new law allowing property ownership attracting foreign investors

China is one of the BRIC countries that exeperts predict will become more powerful than the current richest countries in the world

A new and emerging market

Incomes have been growing

Some 56% Chartered Surveyors recorded a fall in investment demand compared to 9% in Q2

The political system

Flying time very long from UK

The different mentality of Chinese people

The Shanghai stock market dived as soon as trading opened and swung wildly all day before closing down 6.5 per cent, its second-biggest fall this decade

It is home to 1.3 billion people, but only about 400 million are in urban areas

The culture and economic system remain quite different from those of developed countries

A foreign investment in Chinese property is only possible through a China-domiciled foreign invested real estate company